Captain Bert Wallis, LAPD homicide (left), John Edward Healey, recaptured fugitive (center), and Miles H. Ledbetter, detective lieutenant, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Captain Bert Wallis, LAPD homicide (left), John Edward Healey, recaptured fugitive (center), and Miles H. Ledbetter, detective lieutenant, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: [between March 27 and July 13, 1935]
Date: 1935-03-27/1935-07-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Three men sit in chairs in front of a desk. Captain Bert Wallis (left) holds a pipe in both hands and is looking at John Edward Healey (center). Healey has his left hand in his pants pocket. Miles H. Ledbetter also faces Healey, left arm bent, hand on his hip. The desk has a photograph of a man behind bars, possibly Healey, papers, and portfolios.
Negative sleeve does not match negative. Negative might be for envelope 1205 with negative 7528.
Name misspelled on negative: Capt. Bert Wallace is Captain Bert Wallis.
Bert Wallis (left) was a captain of the homicide detail for the Los Angeles Police Department. Miles H. Ledbetter (right) was a detective lieutenant. Center man is John Edward Healey (John E. Healey) who was a fugitive wanted for the murder of Danski Kubo in 1930. He was recaptured March 1935 in Massachusetts and convicted for second degree murder, due to cutting a deal. He was released in 1940.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Capt. Bert Wallace, Juo. Edward Healey, Miles H. Ledbetter
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1202. Mrs. Thacher Taylor & Baby [stamped:] July 18 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Ledbetter, Miles, 1893-1972
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Healey, John Edward, 1906-1988
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Fugitives from justice--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Murder--Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7527
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002df7dg
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